page_title: Ferbane
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ferbane / History
caption_attribution_description: Ferbane, County Offaly, Ireland English: Nursing home in Ferbane, close to the site of Gallen Priory, was originally erected for the Sisters of Saint Joseph.
context_page_description: Ferbane is a town on the north bank of the River Brosna in County Offaly, Ireland, between Birr and Athlone at the junction of the N62 National secondary road and the R436 regional road. The name of the town is said to come from the white bog cotton which grows in the surrounding Bog of Allen.
  Ireland's first milled-peat fired power station was commissioned by the Electricity Supply Board at Ferbane in 1957. Since the station's closure in 2001, the Shannon Development agency and the ESB have invested €1.4 million in a new business and technology park which opened in 2005.
caption: Ferbane Nursing Home 2010
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